Posted on 12/04/2016 6:30:20 AM PST by libstripper
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Oakland warehouse was a cluttered death trap filled with pianos, RVs, but no fire sprinklers, former residents say
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The Oakland warehouse where at least nine people were killed at a late-night concert was a deadly blaze waiting to happen.
People who previously lived there recalled a building that lacked fire sprinklers and had a staircase partly made of wooden pallets. Partygoers recalled a rabbit warren of rooms crammed with belongings pianos, organs, antique furniture, doors and half-finished sculptures.
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IANAL, either. And I suggest you look up the concept of Sovereign Immunity.
They will go after the city and the absentee landlord. The city will pay out as it appears they were aware of it and did nothing about it since they liked having the hippies around. Reports are had complaints about fire hazard specifically and visited more than once.
A lack of sufficient heed as to personal safety is common in liberals. For example, a cousin of mine and her husband — both California liberals — live in Paris near where the Bataclan attack occurred. Delightful and genuinely kind people, they rebuffed my brother’s warning on a visit that the Muslim terror and street crime problem was going to get worse in the months and years to come. “On no, we have to treat them better so they realize that we mean them well” was my cousin’s answer. Mercifully, she and her husband are considering a move to Switzerland based on work considerations.
Wow!
It looks more like audio to me
That's my whole point. Oakland undoubtedly has some excellent fire, plumbing, and electrical codes, codes that were blatantly and repeatedly violated by the owner and the horde of irresponsible, filthy, destructive, hippies that infested the premises. It's just another version of the ongoing auto-massacre of and by blacks in Chicago. Each could be stopped/prevented by aggressive, determined, enforcement of existing laws and regulations by responsible local, state, and Federal government.
Nobody; they sold few, and many of those weren’t developed (the buyers violated the agreements). Blacks don’t want to live in Newark; when they get the means they leave. Newark was trying to rebuild a tax base with buyers, and blacks weren’t taking.
People point to him as the “owner”, I don’t know if his name is on the deed or LLC that owns the building, but he could just be the head squatter for all we know
OAKLAND, CALIF. One of the deadliest fires in recent U.S. history began amid a cluttered collective of artist studios known as the Ghost Ship and spread quickly through a two-story warehouse that did not have fire sprinklers, killing at least 33 people and possibly many more, officials said Sunday.
Help me! shouted partygoers who had gathered at the warehouse for a Friday evening of music and dancing in East Oaklands Fruitvale district, only to find themselves trapped in an inferno.
Firetrucks arrived within three minutes, officials said, but nothing could be done to stop the fast-spreading flames soon enough. The sky was lit with a huge fireball, ignited by an array of artisan works, guitars, pianos, bookshelves, bowls and countless other tinderlike pieces.
ALL TRUE.
They were basically living in an empty warehouse - and I read that twenty people paid rent there. They brought 20 consumers into a building that had none, and as weird as they look they were less dangerous than superpredators. Cities across the country want to set up these “artist colonies” for that very reason; they are trying to bring any commerce into areas that have none. Just having people prepare their coffees and make their meals each day is an economic boost in a dying area.
True.
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